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{
	"title": "Input type=\"range\" polyfill (slider control)",
	"language": "en",
	"category": "Polyfills",
	"description": "Emulates <input type=\"range\"> support for browsers that do not have support. The <input type=\"range\"> element displays a slider control bar.",
	"tag": "slider",
	"parentdir": "slider",
	"altLangPrefix": "slider",
	"js": ["demo/slider"],
	"dateModified": "2014-07-20"
}
---
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<section>
	<h2>Purpose</h2>
	<p>The <code>&lt;input type="range" /&gt;</code> allows to display a slider control bar. Because some browsers do not support this functionality natively, this polyfill emulates the same functionality using generic HTML and WAI-ARIA.</p>
</section>

<section>
	<h2>Relevant attributes</h2>
	<p>Use the following attributes to specify restrictions:</p>
	<ul>
		<li>max - specifies the maximum value allowed</li>
		<li>min - specifies the minimum value allowed</li>
		<li>step - specifies the legal number intervals</li>
		<li>value - specifies the default value</li>
	</ul>
</section>

<section>
	<h2>Examples</h2>
	<section>
		<h3>Range: 0 to 100 in steps of 1 <span id="html5shim-1-out"></span></h3>
		<p><input name="html5shim-1" id="html5shim-1" type="range" min="0" max="100" step="1" title="Range: 0 to 100 in steps of 1" value="50"></p>
		<details>
			<summary>View code</summary>
			<pre><code>&lt;input name="html5shim-1" id="html5shim-1" type="range" min="0" max="100" step="1" title="Range: 0 to 100 in steps of 1" value="50" /&gt;</code></pre>
		</details>
	</section>

	<section>
		<h3>Range: 20 to 50 in steps of 10 <span id="html5shim-2-out"></span></h3>
		<p><input name="html5shim-2" id="html5shim-2" type="range" min="20" max="50" step="10" title="Range: 20 to 50 in steps of 10" value="20"></p>
		<details>
			<summary>View code</summary>
			<pre><code>&lt;input name="html5shim-2" id="html5shim-2" type="range" min="20" max="50" step="10" title="Range: 20 to 50 in steps of 10" value="20" /&gt;</code></pre>
		</details>
	</section>

	<section>
		<h3>Range: Programmatically created <span id="html5shim-3-out"></span></h3>
		<p id="slider-prg"></p>
		<details>
			<summary>View code</summary>
			<section>
				<h4>HTML</h4>
				<pre><code>&lt;p id=&quot;slider-prg&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</code></pre>
			</section>

			<section>
				<h4>JavaScript</h4>
				<pre><code>$slider = $( "&lt;input name='html5shim-3' id='html5shim-3' type='range' value='50'/&gt;" );
$slider.appendTo( "#slider-prg" ).trigger( "wb-init.wb-slider" );
setTimeout( function() {
	$slider.get( 0 ).value = 85;
	$slider.trigger( "wb-update.wb-slider" );
}, 2000);</code></pre>
			</section>
		</details>
	</section>
</section>
